Pocket or note book



(No Model.)

B. WEISSBROD.

POCKET OR NOTE BOOK.

No. 404,758. Patented June 4, 1889.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL IVEISSBROD, OF GREENFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

POCKET OR NOTE BOOK.

SIECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,758, dated June 4, 1889.

Application filed March 20, 1839- Serial No. 303,972. (No model.)

To all whom it Hwy concern-.-

Be it known that I, EMIL WEIssBROD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Greenfield, in the county of Franklin and Stateo'f Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket or Note Books; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention is an imprm cmcntin pocket or note books; and it has for its object to provide an article that will protect its contents against destructibility in relation to fire or heat.

It consists of a pocket or note book having an exterior and divisions formed of double thicknesses of lcatheror fabricated materials,

with interposed and inclosed sheets of asbestus, so that although the article when subj ected to heat may have its exterior portions destroyed the contents will remain intact.

In the drawings illustrating the invention,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the pocket or note book with parts of the material composing the exterior broken away to exhibit the lining material. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the book. Fig. 3 is a detail showin g one partition and the lining material.

Similar reference-letters indicate like parts in all of the figures.

Referring to the dra\vings,A A represent the material of which the bookis main] y composed.

B is the representative of the sheets of the fire-proof material within the exterior or exposed portions of the article.

In the drawings I show a pocket or note book having six apartments for notes, bills, 850., and these several apartments I separate by double walls, which are stitched together on three sides a sufficient distance from the outer edges of the folds to admit of free expansion of the pockets to their maximum capacity.

The exterior of the book is formed of two thicknesses of the leather or fabricated material, and to the outside of the flap portion 0 of the exterior I attach a strap D and a loop -E for said strap, which latter as Well as other outside parts are lined with asbestus. Throughout the receptacle, between each two thicknesses of the body of the same, I interpose and enseam sheets of asbestus, so that when the contents of the books are inclosed and the flap is closed over and secured by the strap and loop said contents will be fully protected within at least two layers or sheet-s of fire-proof covering.

The pocket-book, as exhibited in the drawings and as thus described, is one of ordinary manufacture, with the exception of the fireproof sheets inclosed, and it is employed in this instance to show the adaptability of the asbestus sheets to pocket or note books of any ordinary form.

Having thus described my invent-ion, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A pocket or note book provided with one or more apartments made up of outside and dividing walls, said walls being composed of one or more thicknesses of combustible material and a sheet of asbestus or other noncombustible material, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with a pocket or note book provided with one or more apartments made up of outside and inside double walls, of the asbestus sheets inclosed within said walls, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EMIL IVEISSBROD.

W'itnesses:

JAMES S. GRINNELL, CHAs. ALLEN. 

